We are once again about to enter the new loop of trump's "facilitating peace talks" between Ukraine and russia.

We are at the step:

blame Ukraine.

Next step:

force Ukraine into a sketchy deal, written by russians.

Followed by:

fail and say it's all russia's fault;
someone visits russia and gets a blowjob by pootin;
blame Ukraine.

#ukraine

reuters.com/world/europe/trump…

I'm loving this song at the minute.
Loggins & Messina - House at Pooh Corner.
Heard it years ago by a duo called Makena and thought they had wrote it. No it's a Kenny Loggins song.
youtube.com/watch?v=fbt0Ik_LL2…
#NowPlaying
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in reply to Kara Goldfinch

So this song was sampled by Daft Punk and a guy called Todd Edwards for their track Face to face. Actually one of the easy samples to spot in this youtube.com/watch?v=UKYWWfR_GK…

Rekapitulace roku 2025
Pustil jsem se do menší rekapitulace roku 2025 na mém blogu. Masakr návštěvnosti z vyhledávačů, který pozorují jiné weby, na svém blogu zatím nepozoruji, naopak vyhledávače jako zdroj čtenářů rostly. Jak na tom byly ostatní zdroje a jaké byly nejčtenější články?
#blog #rekapitulace #statistikyblog.eischmann.cz/2026/01/15/r…(reakce na tento příspěvek se může zobrazit jako komentář pod článkem)
in reply to Sesivany's blog

Pekna cisla. S tim AI vyhledavanim (hlavne google ai overview). Nemas tam nejake necekane navstevy na rootu webu?

My jsme meli dost zasadni "incident", kde nas AI overview dalo do medailonku Asher Rotha, ale ne jeho url, ale nasi homepage. Tak se tisice jeho fanousku proklikavali na join.unreleased.art a my vubec netusili, co s tim delat. (neudelali jsme s tim nic)

#Camper ist ein gemeinwohlorientiertes Tool zur Organisation und Durchführung von Barcamps - ohne KI.

Gerade wollte ich darauf verweisen und stelle fest, dass die Finanzierung wohl ausgelaufen ist.

Kennt jemand den Stand der Dinge?
Wäre nicht schön, wenn es nicht weiter betrieben und weiter entwickelt würde.

barcamps.eu/
#OpenSource #Barcamp #FOSS #selbstbestimmtDigital

Keen on losing money? Go #AI

#Cory #Doctorov @pluralistic says sorry:

"No one has ever lost as much money as the AI companies.

There is no way to operate one of Nvidia's big AI-optimized GPUs without losing money. The owners of these GPUs who have lost the least money are the ones who rushed into buying GPUs without ensuring they'd have electricity to power them, and have been forced to leave their GPUs to age in warehouses. "

pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/not…

#ThereIsNoAI #slop

Kritik an der Nutzung eines Altbots ist Fundamentalopposition und man rede damit die Mühen der Inklusion schlecht.

Oh man.

Ich würde mich echt freuen, wenn mehr Menschen darüber nachdenken würden, dass technokratische Implementationen im seltensten Fall die Problemstellung lösen.

Die Ausgabe eines Altbots ist für blinde Menschen nicht überprüfbar. KI-generierte Texte sind idR nicht hinreichend. Den Altbot Text kann man dann weder löschen noch korrigieren. Der Text ist im Reply versteckt (manchmal nicht mal im ersten Reply) und in der Timeline nicht sichtbar.

Dazu kommt, dass für Blinde die Navigation mit Screenreader erheblich aufwendiger ist, als für uns Sehende.

Schreibt eine Bildbeschreibung in das Bild. Bitte.

#Altbot #Bildbeschreibung #AltText

»curl — Projekt beendet Bug-Bounty-Programm:
curl-Maintainer @bagder hat das Ende des Bug-Bounty-Programms angekündigt. Unbrauchbare KI-Meldungen nahmen wohl überhand.«

Ach was, die KI ist künstlich aber nicht intelligent oder was nun?!?? Ich bin sogar der Meinung, dass dies was die KI angeht noch das rel. kleinste "Problem" ist. Schade dass deswegen das curl Bug-Bounty aufgelöst wird.

🧑‍💻 heise.de/news/curl-Projekt-bee…

#curl #ki #bugbounty #unbrauchbar #ai #uberhang #ausserkontrolle #it #ittools

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I've only played a couple of minutes, but Usurper Reloaded looks really #accessible and like loads of fun. With all kinds of content for an alpha 0.1. I never played the original BBS #game, so I don't know how it compares. Run the .bat file to get the console version: github.com/binary-knight/usurper-reloaded/

Y'all I'm still working on language stuff for it so just be patient please. It'll come together, I promise. I just can't dedicate a lot of time to it during work, obviously. So probably in maybe 3-4 hours I expect bigger changes but until then we just gotta be happy with this imperfect alpha-stage version and that we even have NV Speech Player back in the first place :D

Was having a problem with #openBSD -current where @thunderbird would cause the system to slow down before crashing the UI completely. I would have to SSH in from another box and reboot and this would take a while.

Seems that problem is now fixed. I’ve had Thunderbird running for two days with no issues.

Although - whenever I think I’m out of the woods….

Having said all this I still prefer #foss to being locked in with no privacy and having my data sold and being used to train LLM’s.

in reply to Jez Caudle

We're glad things are going better, but sorry that things were sluggish for a bit! A good tool to have when this happens is profiling performance, and we've got a useful article here. Hopefully this doesn't happen again, though! support.mozilla.org/kb/profili…

Happy #WikipediaDay, and congratulations to @wikipedia on their 25th anniversary! What a milestone!

wikimediafoundation.org/wikipe…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedi…

#wikipedia #Wikipedia25Years

in reply to Stefan Bohacek

It's hard to overstate the impact and the importance of a project like Wikipedia. I know not everyone can afford to donate, but I'd like to encourage folks to at least consider contributing their time and become Wikipedia editors.

There are some great initiatives worth looking into, such as wikimediafoundation.org/what-w….

#wikipedia

There is a petition on the UK Parliament website to legally recognise nonbinary as a gender – which would include an X marker on UK passports for nonbinary people.

The deadline to sign is March 2026 and at the time of writing only 213 people have signed.

Let's show them the power of the Fediverse. At 100,000 signatures, the petition will be debated in Parliament.

Sign 👇

petition.parliament.uk/petitio…

#NonBinary #Enby #Trans #Transgender #Queer #LGBTQ #LGBT #UK #UKMastodon #Fediverse

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#Forgejo 14.0.0 was just released!

Issues search now has inline filters. Web file editor was replaced with CodeMirror. CSRF protection is now stateless. Forgejo actions gained new features and better trust management. Foreign keys are now supported to ensure database consistency.

Check out the blog post at forgejo.org/2026-01-release-v1…

#forgejorelease

My morning dose of supreme irony. Just came across a trailer for a video game called Blind Touch, which I thought sounded like one of the many accessible audio games out there, so I clicked. Nope, not that. Just a game where sighted people simulate being blind. Don’t know how that works because you have to see to play the game. But the trailer had no video description so I had to ask my sighted wife what was going on.

reshared this

in reply to Sy Hoekstra

@FreakyFwoof If you want to see what the actual game is about, Jessy Anderson did a video on it. He's a visually impaired game accessibility consultant who also considers accessibility for totally blind gamers in his videos. Haven't watched the whole video but it sounds like this game tries, but has issues. youtube.com/watch?v=Z-baSDu6et…

This iconic photograph captures the massive ash cloud from the catastrophic 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.....

The photo was taken on May 18, 1980, by Richard Lasher, a Boeing employee who was on his way to ride his dirt bike near Spirit Lake. As the ash cloud rapidly approached, Lasher was forced to abandon his red Ford Pinto and escape on his motorcycle.

The eruption was a lateral blast, considered the most disastrous volcanic eruption in U.S. history.

#archaeohistories

I'm sorry y'all. Our TTS engine will be frozen at 2007 pronounciation of Espeak. If we want true, true decoupled multilingual support. I wonder if it's worth maintaining two "flavors" of the driver, one which just uses existing Espeak phoneme data as built into NVDA's Espeak, and another that lets it live standalone to be useed for compiling and other projects. The fact is, this engine cannot become "free" until the phoneme data can live independently within it.
in reply to Cleverson

@clv1 yeah, for now it's still using NVDA's built-in espeak to get the latest phoneme map, but it's clear that we need to actually create rules for how those phonemes actually get pronounced. So even if Espeak is passing a set of phonemes or a representation of a language phoneme rule, if our IPA.py and data.py don't map it up correctly the engine still won't know how to pronounce those phonemes or where to place the actual stresses on parts of it. I think in that way this has been an interesting learning experience, just how it's not about throwing a bunch of phonemes at an engine and saying "here you go now speak them" but you also have to teach it of their meaning. Once we get the Espeak mapping from the current set correct we can look at using the older 2007-era phoneme tables. Those will have issues so that's when I think I'll need more help from the community for some languages where things changed post-2007 Espeak for. Hungarian is not really one of these, it's stayed quite the same since it launched, but I do know they've improved some languages in phoneme representation too.

RE: mastodon.social/@bagder/115893…

This is should be a wider discussion in the security industry. Sustainability!

It’s important to realize that for (small) open source projects, even reports of real security issues with real impact are significant workloads.
They need to be reviewed, understood, fixes designed.

And those fixes may have further effects like compatibility breakage or redesigns.
If done correctly this is a lot of work, work that those developers usually do unpaid. If they have the time.

Bug bounties may increase the amount of code review and hopefully increase the security of a project due to the amount of eyes on it, but they need to be in sync with the needed resources for the project to review and act on those reports.

What if a bug bounty program paid both the finder and the open source project for fixing an issue?


It's about sustainability too. #curl is a small project. We cannot spend multiple hours every day arguing with people who want money for having found what is perhaps a bug - but often is not even that.

It drains us. It drowns us.

Onward and upward!


The Strategy: Find the source code for eSpeak 1.26 or earlier.. Hey, can anyone find the sourcecode for ESpeak 1.26 or earlier for me? Huge thanks. aha. sourceforge.net/projects/espea…
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Ah yes. The good old GPLv2 vs. GPLv3 Conflict. So. If I copy these tables into my project so my engine can function, my project is almost certainly a derivative work of eSpeak. But, Under GPLv3, the "work as a whole" must be licensed under GPLv3. If your project is locked to GPLv2, you cannot fulfill this requirement. The original eSpeak (by Jonathan Duddington) was licensed under GPLv2 up until version 1.24. So it may be possible to use phonemes from it instead.

The driver itself is working fine. So that's the good news. We get speech, we get firing indexes, we have all the weird knobs exposed in your voice dialog settings too. So like, yes. As far as a working, solid driver, I actually think that part was the easiest. The hardest is actually modernizing it a bit to support more languages and eventually, very much later on in the game, not rely on Espeak for phoneme data directly. I don't know what license though Espeak has: Are we able to pull phoneme tables from it directly with just attribution, or must the entire Espeak sourcecode be included? This will be good to verify.

yep. Original NVSpeech Player was also british. For this to even support US English, it needs to have proper IPA mapping and data.py to include how the letters actually get sounded out from those phoonemes Espeak is injecting for us. So first task: Rewrite data.py and IPA.py for NVSpeech Player to have better multilingual support in the first place.